Novum Quarters Vineyard Marlborough Pinot Noir 2024
94 POINTS & Excellent: Cameron Douglas MS
96 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team
95 POINTS: Jamie Goode - WineAnorak.com
95 POINTS: James Halliday's Wine Companion (2023 Vintage)
"A youthful wine that needs time in glass to unfurl and reveal its personality and style. After ten minutes this is revealed as a light savoury complexity with layers of plum and red berry fruits, a dried raspberry then wood smoke and spice qualities, rose and a light wood smoke complexity. An abundance of fine polished tannins and acid backbone deliver a youthful mouthfeel with core fruit flavours reflective of the bouquet. A gentle botanical note then back to fruit and a length finish. A wine that needs time to settle in more with best drinking from 2027 through 2035."
- Cameron Douglas MS
"Medium dark ruby with youthful purple hue. The nose shows classic red fruits and florals with a background of spice and warm cedar. Cranberry and sweet cherry notes combine with leather and dark chocolate. The palate has a warm fruit entry; a fine tannin structure, savoury and herb notes and hints of pomegranate juice which together combine to give character. The acidity is balanced and the wine carries to a soft, lingering, nuanced finish. This is a poised, elegant and layered Pinot Noir with dark-red berry fruit, florals and herbs wrapping a fine structured core."
With our Pinot Noir fruit we are driven to make a wine that has great ‘pinosity’. By that we mean a wine that is heavily nuanced, fragment and even pretty. This extends to the way we guide the fruit through the winery. Hand-harvested. Once de-stemmed (15 % whole bunch this year), the grapes were put into open-top fermenters where they sit on skins (about 5 days) prior to starting off a wild yeast fermentation, then pumped over lightly once a day during active ferment. After 35-plus days on skins the wine is pressed using a traditional old basket press, racked and transferred to French oak barriques (20% new oak). The wine is aged in barrel for 12 months with the final wine being blended in February. Bottled March 2025."
- Winemaker William Hoare
ABV: 13.5%